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About your Mediator
Lee C. Pearce has been a member of the California Bar Association since 1975. He was a member of the first class of Certified Family Law Specialists in 1980, and has limited his practice to family law mediation and litigation since then. He has recently elected to limit his practice to family law mediation and private judging. Lee is a member of the Association of Dispute Resolution and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. He was a founding director of the Family Law Section of the Contra Costa Bar Association and the first President of the organization. He remains a director of the Section, and is active in promoting family law and court reform, continually seeking ways to improve the system and make it more responsive to the needs of families. He is frequently asked by the courts to sit as a temporary judge in the family law departments. In his practice, he has handled all aspects of family law, including the valuation and division of businesses, complex stock option tracing, and allocation of separate and community property assets and obligations, and assisted in drafting the local court procedures and is familiar with the judges. In addition to taking continuing education classes to maintain his Family Law Specialist Certification, he takes additional classes to maintain his mediation proficiency. Lee has long been involved in civic affairs. From writing the Student Constitution as a college student, to serving as legal counsel to the California Junior Chamber of Commerce. Lee was instrumental in opening the California JC's to women members, successfully challenging the national organization in the process. He graduated from Old Dominion University in 1969, and served as an officer in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1972. He attended law school at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, and completed the program in two and a half years, passing the bar exam and being admitted to practice before the rest of his class had graduated. He has been in private practice, first in Concord, and then in Walnut Creek, ever since. He is an avid photographer and loves to travel, always looking for new subjects for his photography. He has been through an amicable divorce himself, remains on good terms with his ex-wife, and has a 37 year old daughter who is now realizing her dream of living on Maui. He has lived in Danville for the past twenty years.
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